The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-03-04

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bauched have the same distinction, In hall
way at midnight, the burglar meets tie
horsepower. and they both fire and are
both wounded. The burglar instantly dies
The house owner suffers on for a week aud
expires Does the burglar stand a. the gate
Of Heaven to welcome in the house-owner
when be comes up. and sny: 81 beat you
whole weak into Heaven DO thelibartines
and the dehanched 90 amid the families OF
Hravenl wonder II Herod is on the banks
OF the River Of Life plaving with the chill
dren whom he masSacre1. wonder X Charles
Guiteau and John Wilkes Booth are in
glory shooting at mark will not con-
trovert tn Sc theoriei lust now, but will say
IN passing thatfor such miserable and ter
! ritic HEAVEN | have no admiration. But
where is the Bible passage that says: BE
T eve in perdition and lie savedgr Because all
! a-e going to hesavel according to your theory
are you discharged from the duty of loving
Z and serving Jesus Christi Be luse. accord
I ing 70 your theory, all the others are going
ashore do, vcu refuse to 20 ashorei Be,ause
/ you have different theories about chemistry.
about astronomy. about the atmosphere, do
/ YOU refuse actioni Because you have a diff
/ ferent theory about light, do you refuse TO
I open your eyesl Be -anse you have
different theory about atmosphere, do
/ you refuse 10 hreathei Be-ause YOU
have a different th aorY about the stellar
system do you refuse to acknowledge the
/ North start Because you have different
! theory about religion, do You refuse to acti
I II you cannot come in on ship fashioned in
I the theological drydocks, come in on plank.
''Some on broken pieces OF the ship.'
am talking with another man about his
soul. He saws: "Oh, | don't believe in re-
vivalsr Then. my brother, go 20 your room,
( lo-k the door and all alone give your heart
70 God and Join me church where the Their.
s.fsn-stes Dsyer ri-ss about 6ffyr in the shadei
But ! don't believe in baptism" Then
come into the kingdom 0f God without
il, and settle that ordinance afterward. But
there ara SO many inconsistent professors Of
RELIGION Then come in, and by your ex-
ample show what a professor ought to be.
i.Drt don't bellows in the Old Testament
Come in on the new. "f3ut / don't like the
book Of Romaus.n Come on Matthew
and Luke. Your refusal to come
20 Christ whom you admit to be !
the Savior, beceuse You cannot believe every
thing, makes me think Of a man who. out in |
the Mediterranean hurricane, Just off the |
island Of Melita, should refuse to go ashore |
until he can get the whole ship fixed up. |
until be can make up his mind where all |
these loose planks belong. He saws: ]
"Im going hore when l eau get !
that windlass III the right place. and this |
keel piece where Il belongs. and all these
rores disentangied and this mast set up
when l set everything shipshape thsn I'll |
come ashore. Why I'm an old sailor for
forty years l know all about ship. aud
when get the ship Just right I'll COME iu.'
Here IS man floating on a plank and he
hears 1t and he says: my friend, you
you get that ship reccnstructed. Better do
as am doing. | know nothing about a
ship never saw one till got aboard that
one can't swim a stroke, but am coming
In ON this shivered TIMBER The man that
comes IN on the plank is saved The
NJ Ell Il. |
mend the old ship is lost oh, my
brother. let your smashed up theology
60 to the bottom while YOU conie in on
splintered spar. ''Some on broken pieces Of
the ship" l think-for am not talking on
abstraction-there are thousand men IN this
house this morning in Just the mood and
mental condition that / an now sfeak-
ing Of and have been asked this
last week over and over again about
this and about that and about the other. and
am told every day Of my life almost: q l
cant adopt the whole system Of religion. /
can't believe all you bslieve and therefore
can't become a Christian so am speak
ing at tremendous practicality-let me
say, my brother, You will probably get
your difficulties settled the way Garibaldi,
the magnetic Italian, got his gardens made
W hen the war broke out between Austria |
AMI Sardinia. Garibaldi was living at Can
rera, rough. uncultured island home. He !
went forth with his sword to achieve the lib '
GRAFTON OF Sicily and Naples, and he gave ,
to 100000 OF people free govern
ment under Victor Emanuel, After
two years absence in the war
Garihaldi came ha k to his island home aud
Is he approached il he found that Victor
Emanuel as matter Of surprise had Edenized :
the whole place. Trimmed shrubbery In l
place Of thorny jungle Beautiful gardens
md terraces in place OF barrenness; and in !
tead OF the old rookery whera he once 4
wed there was picturesque nansi5n Wlsse 7 I;
le passed the rest OF his DAYS in :
'ase and luxury. Oh, my brother, come !,
inder the standard OF our Victor Emanuel n
Ind follow Him through thick and thin. and 4
isht His battles and endure His sacrifices. &
MI You VIII find that Your heart has been n
hanged from a jungle Of thorny scepticism n
nto garden abloom with luxuriaut lows i
n-h as You never dreamed oK-from a u
'aprera OF sadness and desolation into a a
cry faradiss Of God do not know how p
or theory went TO pieces. Perhaps your "
ataer aud mother started you on a planx J Z,
leF having no religion that amounted TO :.
III n OF their own. Or perhaps your parents ~
ere too severe and rigid AMI cracked YOU u
yer the head with psalm book Perhaps ST
gu had Business partner who was a in
ein1er OF the church aud he played on you .,
very mean trics, and ever snca You have =
zen disguised with religion. Perhaps You OF
I've in1del esso.iat S who are every dav III
lkng gainst Christianity until Won are nj
a. sea, and You think more OF what %
u do not believe than of what vou -
peiieEe, In on respect you are =.
Re Lord Nelson, who wished in battle to az
regard certain signal and he put hssea W
ass to his blini eye and slid: II don't see n
y signal that you speas Off Oh, instead an
putting this field glas5 Of the gospel to o.
nr blind eye aud saying Il can't sea- on
faith, a1d YOU VIII see Christ. in
! seeing Hin, you see all Whatever YOU nh
Aere or do MT believe, you certainly b. -,
We in yicarious suffering, for YOU see it Pi
cry day arou ID you in some shape Last or,
onth the steamship knickerbocker, of the tul
cmweil li1e, plying between New Orleans fol
= here, got in great storm. aud the Cap NO
n saw that the schooner Mary d. Gran -
Z, OF fhiia ie phla, was going on the rocks; io'
ths chief officer the first olcerof the steam thu
? and four men put out in a lifeooat to
p the schooner. Tney cams up near H.
ere the schooner was and hawser was HO
own u the boat, the sch ooaer was steared
As, loved away from the rocks. Then bul
WIND shifted aud the schooner was in i .
'lect safety But oh, what a time =
- hfe men had in & ling to the low
amer. Toe boat capsiEsd and was ens
u.eu =. ne sailors wer5 all coated with lad
ice. Three times the boat ca 1sizeI aud 20,
ee times was rishtel After a while it -.
nc CUTE near the steamship, aud from 1"
ss1a.li,nip rope was thrown. but the con
" IeiioWs were 50 frozen and ex- at
lstei they COLD not rrap h. and agn
great wave rolled over fhen mad %
= Neat down, never to rise until the sen sec
3 np Us deal Oh, We admire tho hero sew
and the self-sscrifce OF tho,s brave fel- the
: "a orief 70 save the lives Of Others. and .iou
We not Admire tts love Of Christ. WHO ~
ins9 hercer gale a wilder 'Ho
-fes.s 70 denver Us from perl and !
es the throne OF eterna
~ tI wave Of Human hate rolling
+. -ll'h rom one side and a wave Of bsIi9
+. M lung ,nS over Hun from the other ~
s5., ~, 'as thickness OF the night and the ~
a aaes o. tbs tempest into witch Christ 10 10
81 70 save u3-uS Come in on that -
~ plank OF th3 cross Come in on y, ~
narrow beam. lie. ali elSe % -
x . That Put that under Won ~
narrow beam of the erosS =,
WI e me earnestlezs OF a swimmer struv, p
z Tor ms Life, put for the bsa,h 81
~ graf warm fire is alrsaiv -
. - -. ~ Neie9ne You, AMI some who were .,
-, o-t a. sea as you are, are already -
us s,,..i "a Is genial aud Heavenly glow. -
~NeeIs OF 1ods rescue are wadlng ..
4 INTO the surf to clutch yoxr e
= J. ann the redeemed prodigals OF Heaven u
SSo.iius down with white robes to clothe -
- :, VINO como ION broken pieces of tba -
:, Ny sympathies are the more aroused ~
-, :, % whom an speaking today. b. ~
q = yseI was naturally scepticaL u
,.as ~ everything about this life and -
II the next lifa a,9l - -. - 1A-1 n